It is a complete bull fight/ring set. Would love to know more about them!
Have you ever seen anything like them before?
Monday, February 17, 2014
Need help identifying these...
Does anyone know anything about these? They were give to me by a friend of my Dad's over 60 years ago. He used to travel all over the world, so maybe they were made in Spain or Mexico. The tallest ones are about an inch high and all are made of thin wire and baked clay.
It is a complete bull fight/ring set. Would love to know more about them!
It is a complete bull fight/ring set. Would love to know more about them!
No clue where they might be from but they are really neat.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I'll have a rib-eye, rare.
Terry
Fla.
I have so much odd stuff - don't know what to do with it all. If the matadors lived, I think they had steak, too!
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ReplyDeleteTerry in Fla. e-mailed me these two links:
Deletehttp://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/28-early-clay-wire-bull-fighting-toys &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Mexican_handcrafted_toys
Very interesting and so glad he found the articles for me! I've kept them in a seashell box for years and years.
Don't know either, but they look similar to a nativity set from Mexico City my college roommate sent me about...hmm...15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteAt least in the construction of the animals.
Little bit different scale, I guess, for example a donkey would be about two inches tall.
Nicely painted, somebody put some trouble into the whole set, but looks like a very similar method of construction.
Lot of Dali going on there with the wire!
I think a lot of the clay has fallen off after all these years - hence the Dali look!. Some of the exposed wires are rusting, so please touch up your set if the clay falls off. My set is old, but there is a lot of detail on the figures. Thanks for commenting - good to know the craft is still being done.
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